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Shaun Lewis (Rockstar) and James Williamson (Giant) are heading to South Africa this week to contest the prestigious Cape Epic stage race from the 21st to 28th of March. The Cape Epic, the most televised mountain bike race in the world, gives riders eight days of racing with some huge mountains and long stages thrown in.

Mt Buller’s premier mountain biking event, the Bike Buller MTB Festival, has concluded, with almost 400 of Australia’s best cross-country riders converging on the Victorian High Country resort for a huge weekend of riding with plenty of thrills and spills.

The Festival brought all that is great about mountain biking to one spectacular location - Mt Buller. A huge weekend of riding was had by all, with events including a 25km cross-country race, a 10km kids race, 50km cross-country race to

Sixty-year-old Megan Patey from Colo Vale, NSW is tuning her bike and packing her bags for the trip to Mt Buller in Victoria for this weekend’s Bike Buller MTB Festival. Patey is competing in the Sunday race only which is a tough 50km cross-country race over to neighbouring Mt.Stirling and back again. A big event for anyone let-a-lone someone who is considered a senior citizen!

We consider TV to be the next frontier for our Rapid Ascent events and we are continually trying to get greater public exposure for the feats of endurance, commitment and sporting prowess our competitors do. Power to the Pedal is a new cycling specific program that is just starting and who came and filmed the 2010 Otway Odyssey and also the 2010 Bike Buller MTB Festival.

The Bike Buller MTB Festival is on again this weekend and is bringing all that is great about mountain biking back to the one spectacular location. This year competitor numbers have doubled to nearly 400 riders from all over Australia, contesting four races in two days. The field is hot again with Murray Spink and Jess Douglas both returning with the aim of retaining their overall titles for the weekend’s events.